By Paul Craig Roberts
The 4th of July is upon us. We will hear all sorts of patriotic BS about how wonderful we are and how thankful we are to our brave military which defends our liberty.
Not a word will b...

Some more cheery news from Syria.
According to Aleksey Pushkov, a Russian Senator and former head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the State Duma, "The United States put its Navy and Air Force on al...

The US is to blame for the rise of Al-Qaeda and its late mastermind Osama bin Laden, which it empowered to fight Soviet troops in Afghanistan, Vladimir Putin told Oliver Stone. Putin also said there is proof th...

Russia sees the latest development of US anti-missile system in South Korea as a challenge and will not leave it without a response, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, explaining Russia’s own military build...

Russian parliamentarian Frants Klintsevich, who recently criticized British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon's remarks about using nuclear weapons in a first strike attack in "the most extreme circumstances," h...

by Paul Craig Roberts
Not everyone likes to hear about the threat of nuclear war. Some find refuge in denial and say that nuclear war is impossible because it makes no sense. Unfortunately, humankind has a l...

The US and South Korean militaries have taken part in a combined firing drill as part of joint exercises amid increased tensions with Pyongyang. It comes just one day after the North launched its own artillery ...

DONALD Trump has demanded the evacuation of US citizens from South Korea as part of a drill named Courageous Channel, military sources have revealed.
The US have previously used this drill to practice for ...

The threat of a “nuclear weapon detonation event,” be it accidental or deliberate, is now the highest it’s been since the end of the Cold War, 26 years ago, a UN agency has warned, saying the risk is rising as ...

There is no difference between terrorist action in Syria and the military interventions of the United States and Turkey there, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Sputnik.
DAMASCUS (Sputnik) — The US-led co...

Russia knows war is not an abstraction. This is why Moscow seeks cooperation, not confrontation, with the US.
Dropping bombs on Syria and Afghanistan, and sending battleships to the Korean peninsula to re-en...

China and Russia, along with the member nations of the SCO, EEU and BRICS are preparing to break free from the dollar. For Washington this is unacceptable
As we reported on March 30, China and Russia are takin...

North Korean state media has warned the US of a "super-mighty pre-emptive strike" if it interferes to try and disrupt North Korea's nuclear program. Tensions around the Korean peninsula are severely heightened ...

The Trump administration is reviewing US policy towards Iran, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced, accusing Tehran of sponsoring terrorism and violence and destabilizing numerous countries in the Middle ...

Since the April 6 cruise missile strike by the Trump administration against a Syrian airbase, tensions between the United States and the European powers and Russia are at their highest level since the cold war....

Mike Pence’s statement on the US running out of “strategic patience” towards Pyongyang does not contribute to resolving the crisis, Sergey Lavrov said, voicing hopes there will be no repeat of the US strike on ...

Perhaps no country on Earth is more misunderstood by Americans than North Korea. Though the country's leaders are typically portrayed as buffoonish, even silly, in fact they are deadly serious in their crue...